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APPLE’S SECRETIVE SELF-DRIVING-CAR PROJECT HITS A ROADBLOCK The tech giant has reportedly laid off dozens of employees amid a strategy “reboot” for Project Titan. The battle to build a self-driving car, the biggest, richest tech giants are falling behind. While Tesla and Uber are racing toward getting a fully autonomous vehicle to market—on Sunday Tesla announced a new update to its self-driving software, while Uber is expected to launch its first fleet of experimental self-driving cars in Pittsburgh any day... [Lire la suite]

Obstacle detection : ObstaNex new release   NEXYAD show a new release of ObstaNex (artificial vision-based obstacle detection for ADAS, driverlesscar, and connected intelligent robots).                           3 cars detected by ObstaNex   read more :     http://nexyad.net/Automotive-Transportation/?p=3000

Autonomous buses hit the road in Switzerland Switzerland has joined a growing number of places around the world exploring the potential of electric autonomous buses, with a pair of driverless shuttles now ferrying passengers around the city of Sion as part of a two-year trial. Other autonomous buses being tested out across the globe include the EZ10 in California and Singapore, the Navia also in Singapore, and the IBM-powered Olli in Washington DC that can even talk to its passengers en route. ... [Lire la suite]

Google driverless car division invents technology for automatically detecting police cars   Google is creating sensors that will enable its driverless cars to automatically detect police vehicles in the area, documents have indicated. Self-driving cars will be installed with technology that can identify approaching police cars and trigger an alert so that Google's vehicles can move out of the way or pull over to be questioned. In a US patent filing, the internet... [Lire la suite]

Semi-Autonomous Cars Compared! Tesla Model S vs. BMW 750i, Infiniti Q50S, and Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG Autonomous driving—what the high-minded call artificial intelligence and what we call real brainlessness—may not be as vile as we originally feared. One DeLorean DMC-12 directed by a Stanford University engineering crew can perform perfect opposite-lock, tire-cooking, hands-off donuts at will for as long as the rubber lasts. Lead professor Chris Gerdes explained the rationale underlying this class project, timed to coincide with the... [Lire la suite]

Why Drones and Self-Driving Cars Make a Great Match Drones and self-driving cars are two of the hottest topics in technology, and in some ways are made for each other. While autonomous cars can "see" all around them, their sensors are limited to a certain distance, whereas drones can scout obstacles and trouble far ahead. Read more : http://www.pcmag.com/commentary/344411/why-drones-and-self-driving-cars-make-a-great-match

New HMI for the real time onboard driving risk assessment smartphone App SafetyNex (for car safety) SafetyNex warns the driver before crossing a dangerous area if the driving style (speed etc ...) shows that the driver clearly misunderstood thedanger. SaftyNex is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. SafetyNex reduces accident rate by 20%.   SafetyNex is a comprehensive aftermarket ADAS, developed by NEXYAD. SafetyNex also provides risk profiles and usage profiles to Insurance Companies : increase margin, develop new... [Lire la suite]

More than 60 participants to the ADAS MORNING (2016 Oct 18) in Paris It's been a very nice presentation of Road Safety Issues : . people (statistics of accident, death, ...). insurance companies. fleets. companies and professional drivers. researchers (human factor, ...). road infrastructure experts. ADAS and real time alert systems. car manufacturers and future driverless systems This manifestation was organized by MOV'EO Groupement ADAS.Groupement ADAS is a cluster of high-tech SMEs focused on ADAS, intelligent... [Lire la suite]

On the Road to Driverless Differential GNSS+INS for Land Vehicle Autonomous Navigation Qualification By Gilles Boime, Emmanuel Sicsik-Paré and John Fischer Land-vehicle autonomous navigation requires centimeter-level qualification tools to enable confidence build-up for delivery to open-road traffic insertion. External positioning sensors over a dedicated road section can be replaced with an embedded high-accuracy, highly responsive epoch-by-epoch differential GNSS receiver coupled with an inertial navigation system. The... [Lire la suite]

Intelligent tyre for accident-free traffic Background & policy context:  Research and development work in automotive industry has been focusing at an intensified pace on developing vehicles with intelligent powertrain management, chassis control systems and driver support functions such as ADAS for improved lateral and longitudinal control of the car, as well as for monitoring tasks. Up to 2005, tyres had been only rubber systems representing 'terra incognito' in Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) area without... [Lire la suite]